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Southern Baptist leader defends religious liberty for Muslims
By Adelle M. Banks — June 15, 2016
(RNS) An Arkansas pastor offered a motion calling for the removal from office of SBC leaders who supported the right of Muslims to build mosques.
Growing concern for German churches: Muslim refugees harassing Christians
By Tom Heneghan — June 3, 2016
(RNS) Accounts of Muslim migrants ganging up on Christians and other minorities in refugee shelters are raising concerns.
Anti-Semitism among refugees a quandary for Germany
By guest — June 3, 2016
(RNS) Anti-Semitism among refugees from Arab Middle Eastern countries is growing, in a nation that is acutely aware of the memory of the Holocaust.
America’s moral obligation in the global refugee crisis
By Jerome Socolovsky — May 26, 2016
(RNS) "If you’re a good swimmer, you’ve got an obligation to jump in the river to save a drowning child."
World Vision president: Treat refugees as guests
By Timothy C. Morgan — May 16, 2016
(RNS) Christians in Iraq’s Kurdish north, Jordan, and Lebanon are becoming more innovative in responding to the needs of refugees. U.S. churches can learn from them, Rich Stearns said.
Austrian bishop refuses to allow construction of refugee fence on church land
By Yonat Shimron — April 22, 2016
(RNS) A fence "would contradict the spirit of the Gospel, Pope Francis's clear message to Europe," said the bishop.
German anti-Muslim group founder in court over hate speech
By RNS staff — April 19, 2016
BERLIN — Lutz Bachmann, the co-founder of Germany's anti-Islam PEGIDA group , is charged over sending social media posts in which he called refugees "cattle," "garbage" and "scumbags."
Syrian refugees sheltered by pope describe ‘miracle’ journey
By David Gibson — April 18, 2016
ROME (RNS) From a war-torn homeland to a hellish camp on a Greek island, the Muslim families are now living in the sheltering shadow of the Vatican.
Islam incompatible with German constitution, says AfD party
By RNS staff — April 17, 2016
BERLIN — The party is profiting from popular angst about how Germany can cope with an influx of migrants, over a million of whom arrived last year.
‘You are not alone,’ Pope Francis tells refugees, brings 12 to Rome
By Rosie Scammell — April 17, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The pontiff's dramatic gesture capped a lightning visit, with Orthodox Christian leaders, to a Greek island that had a politically-charged message for Europe.
Pope to make lightning trip to migrant island in Aegean Sea
By Reuters — April 7, 2016
VATICAN CITY -- Hundreds of thousands of refugees, many fleeing war in Syria, have poured onto the Greek island of Lesbos over the past year, triggering Europe's biggest humanitarian crisis in generations.
Priest says he gambled $380K raised for Iraqi refugees
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — March 29, 2016
(RNS) The Canadian priest confessed that funds for sponsoring mideast refugees had instead vanished in vice, his bishop told the Toronto Star.
Pope says don’t turn backs on refugees
By Reuters — March 20, 2016
VATICAN CITY -- Leading Palm Sunday services, Francis departed from his homily to criticize the treatment of refugees.
Churches pray for refugees on fifth anniversary of Syrian civil war
By Timothy C. Morgan — March 14, 2016
(RNS) The Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board and a dozen other Christian groups will raise awareness in American churches through the #PrayForRefugees campaign.
Top Anglican archbishop: Fear of refugees ‘entirely reasonable’
By Trevor Grundy — March 11, 2016
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The archbishop also rejected as "absolutely outrageous" claims that people worried about refugees were racist.
